9-letter words containing n, o, w
- wondreful — Obsolete form of wonderful.
- wonkiness — The state or condition of being wonky.
- wood fern — any of several shield ferns of the genus Dryopteris.
- woodbines — Plural form of woodbine.
- woodenman — HOLWG, DoD, 1975. Second of the series of DoD requirements that led to Ada. "Woodenman Set of Criteria and Needed Characteristics for a Common DoD High Order Programming Language", David A. Fisher, Inst for Def Anal Working Paper, Aug 1975. (See Strawman, Tinman, Ironman, Steelman).
- woodentop — a dull, foolish, or unintelligent person
- woodgrain — a material or finish that imitates the natural grain of wood in pattern, color, and sometimes texture.
- woodhaven — a city in SE Michigan.
- woodhenge — a henge monument consisting of circles of upright timber posts.
- woodiness — The state of being woody.
- woodlands — Plural form of woodland.
- woodprint — woodcut.
- woodstone — a type of stone resembling wood; petrified wood
- woodwaxen — woadwaxen.
- woodwinds — a musical wind instrument of the group comprising the flutes, clarinets, oboes, bassoons, and occasionally, the saxophones.
- wooliness — Alternative spelling of woolliness.
- woomerang — boomerang.
- wooziness — stupidly confused; muddled: woozy from a blow on the head.
- wordbound — constrained or limited by words
- wordcount — a computer tool that counts words
- wordiness — characterized by or given to the use of many, or too many, words; verbose: She grew impatient at his wordy reply.
- wordings' — the act or manner of expressing in words; phrasing.
- work song — a folk song sung by workers, with a rhythm like that of their work.
- work-worn — roughened by hard work
- workbench — a sturdy table at which an artisan works.
- workmanly — Befitting a workman; skilful; workmanlike.
- workprint — the first positive print of a film, assembled from the dailies: used in the editing process.
- workwoman — a female worker.
- workwomen — Plural form of workwoman.
- worldline — Alternative spelling of world line.
- worldling — a person devoted to the interests and pleasures of this world; a worldly person.
- worm into — Zoology. any of numerous long, slender, soft-bodied, legless, bilaterally symmetrical invertebrates, including the flatworms, roundworms, acanthocephalans, nemerteans, gordiaceans, and annelids.
- worriment — the act or an instance of worrying; anxiety.
- worseness — the state or condition of being worse
- worsening — Present participle of worsen.
- woundable — Capable of being wounded; vulnerable.
- woundedly — in a wounded manner
- woundwort — any of several plants of the genus Stachys, belonging to the mint family, especially S. palustris, having hairy stems and leaves and whorled clusters of small, reddish flowers.
- wrapround — made so as to be wrapped round something
- wring out — twist until dry
- writedown — (accounting) An adjustment; a precise amount adjusted by an act of writing down or entering an asset and its value; a reduction of an asset, written down or otherwise recorded as such.
- wrong 'un — a dishonest or unscrupulous person
- wrongdoer — a person who does wrong, especially a sinner or transgressor.
- wrongness — not in accordance with what is morally right or good: a wrong deed.
- wronskian — the determinant of order n associated with a set of n functions, in which the first row consists of the functions, the second row consists of the first derivatives of the functions, the third row consists of their second derivatives, and so on.
- wyandotte — a city in SE Michigan, on the Detroit River.
- wyn jones — Ieuan (ˈjʊən). born 1949, Welsh politician; leader of Plaid Cymru (2000–2012)
- x-windows — (spelling) A common misnomer for the X Window System.
- yellowfin — A widely distributed, commercially important tuna that has yellow anal and dorsal fins.
- yellowing — Present participle of yellow.